June 22, 2017

Everybody
has a body, born nude and soon thereafter wrapped in shame for its
naked existence. Everybody has to be able to get around in a city packed
with cars leaving room for few other options. Its time to take back our
bodies and our streets. Its time for the 2nd annual Las Vegas World
Naked Bike Ride!

This is a global event held to fight body shaming, patriarchy and the world’s dependence on fossil
fuels. The ride is "As Bare As You Dare"
so wear as much or little clothing as you desire on your bicycles,
skateboards, or any other form of human-powered transportation to
celebrate human-powered locomotion.Due to the Las Vegas heat,
the museum will be hosting indoor activities including a craft tables,
body painting, and more, beginning at 6, with the actual bike ride
starting at 9 pm.

Crank and Grind has agreed to support riders
before and during the WNBR. Minor bike repairs will be provided for by
donation. Bad Ass Coffee and Hot Diggity Dog will keeping the riders
fueled and ready for action and free water will be available to
everyone.ReBAR is hosting the official Las Vegas WNBR afterparty (pasties
required) and will be giving a free beer to anyone on the ride. Bike
Smut is providing technical support and coordinating entertainment,
including a set by Fans of Jimmy Century as well as some special guest
appearances and a yes, we even have a pool to cool off after the hot ride.

"For the
second year in a row, The Erotic Heritage Museum is supporting the Las Vegas World Naked Bike Ride," said museum Director, Dr Victoria Hartmann.
"As a longtime Las Vegas institution, part of our mission is to advocate
for sex positive culture. It's ironic that one of the most
sexualized cities in the U.S.-Las Vegas-criminalizes non-sexual nudity.
We hope to bring attention to these hypocrisies and help to change
the laws in Clark County, bringing them in line with other cities like
Chicago, Portland, and New York. We believe nudity as a form of protest
should be a 1st amendment issue and thus a form of protected free
speech."

Dr. Victoria Hartmann

Naked rides have existed a long time. The origin of the wheel is not
exactly known but its safe to say that someone was naked on a wheel
shortly after the wheel was invented. 5 thousand years later organized
rides are common in select places such as Seattle´s Freemont Festival.
Then in 2004 Conrad Schmidt asked friends to organize bikers and nudists
across the world into what was officially named the World Naked Bike
Ride. 13-years later hundreds of rides happen every year, some with only
a handful of riders others with more than 10,0000 riders.

The WNBR
is a protest against oil dependency and a celebration of body
positivity. For years bikers have struggled to be recognized on the
road. All too frequently the simple defense of ¨I didn´t see em¨ was
enough to relieve an innatentive motorist of any culpability.
Thankfully, the WNBR has a simple solution: RIDE NAKED & BE SEEN. If
being naked is necessary to be safe on a bike then we are morally
obligated to bike in the buff as much as possible.

¨The bike is the
unabashed vehicle of the revolution. By cycling naked we declare our
confidence in the beauty and individuality of our bodies and the
bicycles’s place as a catalyst for change in the future of
sustainability, transport, community and recreation.¨- pdxwnbr.org

May 10, 2017

People often ask what is the biggest market for Bike Smut. They want to compare the meccas of sexy cycling: Vancouver, Berlin, Minneapolis, London, San Francisco, Copenhagen, New York, Amsterdam, Portland... Bike Smut has a an impressive history with each of these cities and each of them are quite bikesexually impressive in their own right.

For many years the most exciting shows, the most consistently stoked audience and frequent submissions came from, of all places, Salt Lake, the Mormon headquarters. Its easy to make assumptions about the reasoning behind why cities are different (eg in rains in Portland so people are more crafty). We are a reluctant to make any such assumptions, but for many years we have postulated that in cities where sex and cycling culture are accessible many of the people don't immediately see the value of Bike Smut. In cultures that are more oppressive, where people use terms like "biker", or "queer", or "queer biker" as insults. In these places it is a call to arms to say, "Fuck yes, I'm a queer biker and me and all my friends are gonna fucking party queer-biker style!"

But a couple years ago the mantle of most popular bikesexual city was passed on from Salt Lake to the most religious city of Mexico: Puebla. With more than 6 million people and nearly as many churches, Puebla is considered to be the most conservative city in Mexico.

Our last show there included more than 100 different submissions of bikesexual photography from various artists and the attendance reflected that vast cultural buy-in. More than 800 people filled the courtyard and cheered for more.

This weekend they have pushed the limits again with 3 shows on 3 nights completing our tour with 5 shows in 6 days!

Wow! We were all ready to give up on Chiapas. We have been trying to make a show happen there for many years and every year we shrug our collective shoulders and just give great bike porn to the fine Mexicans that clamor for it. We had tried many places but came up short. But finally our message got though, and just in time! With a week left we have FIVE shows booked!

The Wapani culture center should be an excellent place to watch Bike Smut. Even the Google Translation of this place sounds pretty fucking amazing:

Wapani is a space where everyone can enter, space in continuous change It is a cyclope eye a collective view totally free and independent a quest for self-management believing that from the arts we can support any initiative linked to it. Wapani according to the Native Americans is an act of exchange and generosity without expecting anything in return and in that definition we find our name. Between bread and water is born the idea of Wapaní.un a game of words where everyone can somehow participate.

May 2, 2017

The last time we were in Oaxaca (in the city Oaxaca) we were just able to stymie a full on bikesexual riot. We were staying at the venue so we knew that if the place burnt down we would be the ones with no place to sleep!

April 26, 2017

Bike Smut has always been for the people. Not just the people it serves directly (ie, our audience) but the people that will never know of its existence. We would like to believe that there is some massive Butterfly Effect that filters out of each show, causing the participants to engage with their mobile-sexuality a little differently. The ideals of Joyful Exploration, Shameless Flirtation and Radical Honesty help us find and embrace our desires. Witnessing someone make themselves vulnerable by sharing their fantasies emboldens others and puritanical shame is diminished. We all benefit from this scenario. But while we are very proud of our methods many choose other ways to engage these topics.

Recently a festival was going to invite Bike Smut or a person who has made a culture of encouraging people to photograph bikers without their consent (technically legal in the USA but still sketchy).

We are not one to Yuck another person's Yum but we wish there was a better way. For sure, its not easy. Besides the obvious challenge of racing after a person on a bicycle, just imagining how one might obtain feedback from strangers is difficult enough. "I just took your picture, can I use it in this context" strangely seems even more invasive then just snapping the photo and running. But why? Perhaps because we have trained ourselves to exist in a culture that spends more time begging for forgiveness than asking permission.

Thankfully we don't have to suffer in contemplation the ethics of others. We simply have to live our truth and hope that others are similarly inspired. But we do enjoy the mental exercise so we invite you to take part in a rarely seen side of ours, Bike Smut's intellectual explorations of bikes and sex.

First this weekend is the North American Anarchist Studies Network (nassn.org). Basically political wonks gathering for what we presume is an opportunity to stoke their own red and black gears. Although our voices might often be drowned out by the capitalist machine when we gather, when we organize our ideas have wheels of their own.

A bunch of intellectuals sharing theories on various political systems may not sound exciting but then you might have gotten accustomed to the yoke of capitalism. If you spend more time wondering how to maximize your net worth than you do dancing I hope you are able to join us for a rousting examination of what bodies will do with given the freedom to move and fuck as they please without concern for compensation.

Then on Monday the woman responsible for making all the screenings at this year's World Bicycle Forum has invited Bike Smut to present at her weekly film club. Its a kickass place to watch a bunch of porn and we will be making a rare performance at the end.

ENGRISH!
We are so stoked to be back in Mexico. The culture, food, people are all so welcoming. And our friends at Casa Bicitekas are making it happen! With the world's largest gathering of bicycle nerds happening in Mexico we were dubious we would get an invitation. We like to wonk hard, but for some reason many people in the US don't like to get transportation advice from porn stars. It seems our neighbors to the south are more reasonable with their politics. As the imitable Courtney Trouble said, "let your porn inform your politics and your politics inform your porn." (more or less, I hope I didn't fuck up that quote)

So we are fortunate to present not only the world's only collection of futuristic, sci-fi themed, bicycle pornography but also host a workshop deconstructing bike porn as well! Both happen Friday at Casa Bicitecas!

April 15, 2017

Bike Smut returns to Mexico! In all the world there is only one homegrown film and performance festival displaying the joy and libeartion of human-powered mobility and sex-positive culture. Although we have moved into a comfortable retirement from touring there were 4 movies made in Mexico in our most recent program so we couldn't keep Science Friction from our Southern neighbor for long.

We have officially been invited to present our glorious bikesexual films at the 6th annual World Bicycle Forum aka la Foro de Mudial de la bicicletta. Some have called it the biggest bike party on earth, and we are happy to be here. Thankfully we are a pretty good judge of bike parties. Our friends the Dead Baby Bicycle Club of Seattle whom have been hosting a massive party every first Friday of August for the past 21 years might argue they have been doing it longer and better.

Bicycle dance performances by the Sprockettes at The Dead Baby Downhill

Never any shortage of bikes, beer or fire

Well what they lack in fire and freaks we hope they will make up for with radical collaboration and ideas from across the planet. We are sure the #FMB6 is gonna have more wonks but will it have more wanks? Only time will tell but we are excited to rub thighs with some of the world's finest thinkers.

Bike Smut is...

At first you may not see the connections between sex and cycling. Some are attracted to the sleek designs, some champion the liberation of women, (eg how bikes put pants on women) while others think bikers are hot and want to fuck them.

We can help.

Our program of short, DIY bike pornography is specially designed to provide you the tools to meet, converse and potentially reach orgasm with bikers in your area!

We endorse:

joyful exploration,

shameless flirtation,

and radical honesty.

Movies are a powerful medium, but even more impressive is what creative ideas come from a community gathering to appreciate the cause of better sex and better transportation! Workshops, dance parties, lectures and discussion groups, potlucks, craft nights, naked/underwear bike rides, and more take part in bettering your community by helping to define obscenity for yourself...